Golden Hours

A 17th-century clock by André-Charles Boulle. Photo courtesy of the Frick Collection

Gilded and enameled, inlaid and bejeweled, the 28 clocks and watches that will be on display in “Precision and Splendor,” a new show at Manhattan’s Frick Collection, are so richly ornamented it scarcely matters that by today’s standards they are imperfect timekeepers. Particularly fine among these horological masterpieces—part of a bequest to the museum by collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey—is a 17th-century barometer clock by André-Charles Boulle (above), with tortoiseshell marquetry, ebony veneer, and brass mounts. January 23–June 23; frick.org